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Category Archives: health & fitness
it was my race
A month ago, I called my sister frantic. “Jennifer (that’s her name), I can’t run a 10k, I don’t even have time to train. I just had a baby!” I’ll never win.” She hung on to my last complaint and … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, meeting goals, personal achievement, running, running a 10k
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pre-race jitters
That race, the one I’ve been talking about on this blog for months, is tomorrow. Eeek. I’m excited, nervous, and ready…kind of. I feel like my training routine hasn’t been the best but I do feel that I can do … Continue reading
it’s only five minutes
I should really be in bed right now. I really want to be in bed right now. But, I didn’t post here yesterday and felt guilty about the prospect of again not posting here today. “It’s only five minutes,” my … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise, five minutes of writing, running, writing
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this race will be like childbirth
In 7 days, I’ll be running a 10k marathon. 7 days. I think I realized this sometime last week. I was talking to my husband about our plans to take a vacation in the first week of June and then … Continue reading
aiming low and going very very slow
I began working out consistently at 19. Then, I was a gym girl. I went to the gym, at one point, every single day of my life. Every single day of my life, at that point, I ran for 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged exercise routine, fitness, health and wellness, lessons learned
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you’ve done a good job
Before I had children, I used to go to the gym for hours. And when I say hours, I mean hours. I would stay long,work hard, and sweat hard. It was all or nothing then. A workout wasn’t a workout … Continue reading
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Tagged beautiful life, inspiration, working out with children
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competitive people scare me|running
I should preface this post by saying that I was once a competitive person. Not the kind who partook in sports and arm wrestles and other competitive games where healthy forms of competition are welcome and necessary. No, no, no, … Continue reading
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